sabretech. they plead no contest to one state charge of mishandling hazardous waste. the company also faces 24 federal charge, but it convicted of only one. failing to train employees in hazardous materials handling. before the cases are finished, sabretech goes out of business. valujet is temporarily grounded by the faa, but guess on to merge with airtran airways, and is later acquired by southwest. when you fly, there are so many people that affect your airplane, your safety. coming up, a passenger smells smoke coming from a lavatory. within minutes the pilot has to fight to control the airplane on its way to the ground. are you still sleeping? just wanted to check and make sure that we were on schedule.
you are allowed one reset so i pushed it and it didn t move. i didn t consider that a reset. the captain was at the controls that day. for the first time in decades he is back in the cockpit of a dc-9 at the space museum in ottawa. the breakers are connected to the lavatory in the back of the plane. once they pop out, they cut the flow of electricity to the lavatory motor. the crew responded to that appropriately. there was a problem there, and they left the circuit breakers then extended or popped so that it would deprive power to that component eliminating any potential future problem. unfortunately, flight 797 s problems are just beginning. i think it was about an hour and a half into the flight that there was so commotion in the back of the plane. i remember seeing one of the flight attendants take a fire extinguisher to the back.
enormous amount of energy and could ig night a fire. investigators do, in fact, find evidence of arching on the left and right lavatory feeder wires, which come up through holes in the floorboard. the arch starts a fire that ignites the lavatory walls. the fire then spreads, consuming vital electrical systems. it became very hard to fly. his arms would have been very tired by the time he got on the ground. he expended a lot of physical energy. he did a really good job. air canada says the plane met all existing safety standards. the question now is whether the standards should be made tougher. with extensive aircraft from
the lavatory. the scepter of the fire damage. investigators immediately suspect an arching event. the electricity that is flowing through a wire is over time insulation can chafe, can crack, and these cracks allow the electricity to not flow down too wire path as it s supposed to. but to jump to a part of the flame on the airplane. weight on an airplane is something you try to keep to an absolute minimum. one way to do that is to utilize small but powerful electric motors. so a very smeart motor can get three boosts of electricity as it winds down. the motor inside the lavatory is surprised with three phrase power. much stronger than a typical household current. electricity jumping from one of these wires would release an
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